Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-24
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The Pawnee City election to issue SIS. 600 in
bonds carried.
fsn capacity, and turning. out q large amount
II goods.
rhe Hui. county fair begins at Grand
Is,aad Sept. 20.
The Butler County Press has passed it's
fourteenth milestone.
The I'D Fellows 1T Broken Bow are build
ug a new sl0, 600 bali, 1l2 by % feet and two
stories high.
The pubiic school opened Monday at Hol-
dredge, In the new brick school house. with
six teachers.
The board OF supervisors Of Buffalo county
have found the county clerk So, 600 short in
his accounts.
The Fullerton roller mills have repaired
their damage from the lood and commenced
running again.
The harvest heme picnic at Grand Island
was a success. Hon. G. FL. Van Wyck deliv-
cred an address.
The far ners In the region Of Fai. bury are
bringing in a good many peaches, and the ap-
pie crop IS large.
Wilsonville was made glad last week by the
whistle Of the locomotive, tie first ever heard
within Ito limito.
The Knights Of Labor Endorsed Hon. j. II.
Broadly, Judge of the Gage county district
court for re election.
At the Beatrice races Counsellor won, time,
D .oalZ Tho avhlhitc ,yor, l..na o-l ,ha Cot,
vac a successful one.
The corner stone of the new Nebraska Wes-
cyan university, costing 10000, viii be LAID
at Lincoln Thursday.
The Omaha District Baptist association on
saturday adopted q series Of resolutions de-
~nouncing the Democratic and Republican
parties for their course on the prohibition
question and Withdrawing from each Of them.
Fred kongo, a prisoner in jail at Clay City,
awaiting trial for attempted murder Of his
wife committed suicide In his cell on Sunday
morning by cutting the arteries of his arms
shave himself.
A frightful smash-up occurred at Hastings
FRIDAY night by a ST. Joe and Grand Island
passenger tram aud a wild Burlington and
Missouri freight colliding at the crossing of
two roads. No one was killed but several
were considerably injured.
Articles of incorporation of the Western
Free Baptist Printing company were filed
With the secretary OF state Friday. Tie OBJ.
ject OF the incorporation Is the publication of
the Western Free Baptist, q Kencsaw, Adams
county. The capital stock Is $1,000.
The first HON steader, Daniel freeman, of
Beatrice, Ncb-sska, has given a cane grown
on the first homest,al In TIE United States TO
Galuaha A. Grog, OF Pennsylvania, speaker
OF the national house In 1861 3, and often
called the father Of the homestead law.
ST. Paul's Methodist church at Lincoln was
nearly destroyed by fire on Monday. The
basement was used to serge meals In during
the fair. Some one tried to fiji . gasoline
stove without shutting of tie blaze, The
loss Is confinei to the basement but will reach
81 900.
Lizzie Dastal, q nineteen year-oid Bohemian
girl, was found dead in her bed at Coos no.
Tel, Omaha, Sunday afternoon, asphyxiated
with gas. She was without friends and out of
employment. Whether she turned on the gas
u comm { suicide or lgnorantly blew out the
gas is not known
Daring the performance Of McIntyre x
Heath's Ministries, ut Nebraska City, Prof.
Bushnell the high wire artist, fell irsm the
slack wire and broke his arm above the wrist,
The accident was caused by one Of the at
tendants walking against the wire, throw ng
the professor to the floor. He is resting
easy.
Mrs. Chss. Ryan, Of Springfield, H., died
az the BOtswick house ut Hastings. She, In
company with her husband, were upon a
pleasure trip to the west and intended to go
70 the Pacific coSst. They he'd spent a few
days 1T Lincoln and had res1med their our
ney whea Mrs. Rysn was taken sick upon
the train and was compelled to stop of there.
The total enrolment. "a reported TO the
Omaha superintendent OF schools is SIS 0, and
there were seven suburban schools which had
not yet reported. Estimatiog the attendance
at them TO aggregate coo, which is consider
ed as about right, and makes the total enroll
Irent on the start Of 6 $50, against 5,15s last
year, or an increase Of l 600.
Fremont Tribune, "a: a few farmers Of
Douge county and a large number of Wash
Il gton county, mostly in tie northwestern
cart, seem to have been caught mapping BY
the odorus Mutual Life Insurance company.
The agents for this concern did a big business
amons the farmers, securing a large number
az ~policies, it seems, ranging from 81, coo to
SO, O0S each.
The Omaha printers In conjunction with 9TH
ers Of the craft, set apart their earring on
ettirg 200 ems of type or Tuesday toward,
The home for INDECENT printers, TO found
which Anthony Drexel and George W. Childs,
Of Philadelphia, gave $4,000 two years ago.
The Omaha priuter's contribution will reach
about 500. This years. total OF contributions
IL e.timxted at sl0,C00, last years WAS $1,000,
AID therefore the fund has reached aboat
SIS, CO already.
s1hs following N,braska postmasters were
appointed Thursday: John Decker, Akron,
Boope county, vice Francis z. Tsckley, re-
signed; Hiram Humphrey, Burton, Keys Psna
c3uoty, vice Llmsn Cranda!l, resigned; Wal
ter J. Seaman, Jeesup, Antelopc county, vice
p ter O'Mallrl, resigned; Eugene VI. Smith,
aiis, keya Pala county, vice Fred Hag~meis,
ter, resigned: John A, McEnGt fer. Orrssa.